Elon Musk targets telecom for next disruption with Starlink internet
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Last Updated: Jan 25, 2021, 09:45 AM IST
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SpaceX has told investors that Starlink is angling for a piece of a $1 trillion market made up of in-flight internet, maritime services, demand in China and India and rural customers.
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Elon Musk became the world’s richest person this month by upending the global auto industry and disrupting aerospace heavyweights with reusable rockets. Now he’s setting his sights on another business dominated by entrenched incumbents: telecommunications.
Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has launched more than 1,000 satellites for its Starlink internet service and is signing up early customers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. SpaceX has told investors that Starlink is angling for a piece of a $1 trillion market made up of in-flight internet, maritime services, demand in China and India and rural customers such as Brian Rendel.
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Elon Musk is setting his sights on another business, telecommunications.
Elon Musk became the world s richest person this month by upending the global auto industry and disrupting aerospace heavyweights with reusable rockets. Now he s setting his sights on another business dominated by entrenched incumbents: telecommunications.
Musk s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has launched more than 1,000 satellites for its Starlink internet service and is signing up early customers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. SpaceX has told investors that Starlink is angling for a piece of a $1 trillion market made up of in-flight internet, maritime services, demand in China and India and rural customers such as
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